Marc F Bellemare, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics  

Office Location: 211 Sanford
Office Phone: 919-613-7405
Email Address: marc.bellemare@duke.edu

Mailing Address

On leave during the 2009-2010 academic year.

Education:
Ph.D. (Applied Economics), Cornell University, 2006
M.Sc. (Economics), Universite de Montreal, 2001
B.Sc., Universite de Montreal, 1999

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise:
Applied Economics

Current projects: Reverse Share Tenancy, Monitoring in Production Contracts, Market Participation of Households, Price Risk Aversion, Intrahousehold Models

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. M.F. Bellemare, Sharecropping, Insecure Land Rights, and Land Titling Policies: A Case Study of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar, Development Policy Review, vol. 29 no. 1 (2009), pp. 87-106 [papers.cfm]  [abs].
  2. Bellemare, Marc F., and Christopher B. Barrett, An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 88 no. 2 (2006), pp. 324-337 .
  3. Barrett, Christopher B., Marc F. Bellemare, and Sharon M. Osterloh, Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists, in Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges, edited by John McPeak and Peter D. Little (2006), pp. 15-38, Warwickshire, UK: ITDG Publishing .
  4. M.F. Bellemare, C.B. Barrett, Z.S. Brown, and D.R. Just, Household Attitudes to Price Risk with Multiple Commodities: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (December, 2008)  [abs].
  5. M.F. Bellemare and Z.S. Brown, On the (Mis)Use of Wealth as a Proxy for Risk Aversion (November, 2008) [papers.cfm]  [abs].
  6. C.B. Barrett, M.F. Bellemare, and J.Y. Hou, Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship (January, 2008) [papers.cfm]  [abs].
  7. M.F. Bellemare, Insecure Land Rights and Reverse Share Tenancy in Madagascar (2008) [papers.cfm]  [abs].
  8. Marc F. Bellemare, Agricultural Extension and Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar (January, 2009) [papers.cfm]  [abs].
  9. Marc F. Bellemare, Testing between Competing Theories of Reverse Share Tenancy (July, 2007)  [abs].
  10. M.F. Bellemare, The (Im)possibility of Reverse Share Tenancy (2008) [papers.cfm]  [abs].

Areas of Interest:
Development Microeconomics
Agricultural Economics
Applied Econometrics
Contract Theory
Applied Microeconomics

Bio/Profile
Marc F. Bellemare was born in Montréal (Québec), Canada, in 1976. After obtaining a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. (Economics) from the Université de Montréal, he spent four months working at the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a specialized agency of the United Nations in Rome, Italy.

He then attended Cornell University for his Ph.D., where he wrote a dissertation on agrarian contracts. His fields of interest are development microeconomics, agricultural economics, applied econometrics and applied contract theory, and he has conducted research on the market participation of agricultural households, on agrarian contracts, and on the price risk preferences of households.